How I found body bliss

"I used to be obsessed with my body—I would diet only to gain the pounds right back, then do it again. Finally, I got tired of all that and decided to simply stop. If I got fat, I'd get fat, but it wasn't worth the aggravation. To distract myself, I began jogging with my dogs. In a few months, I easily lost the pounds I'd struggled with. More important, my dogs helped me see that a number on the scale is meaningless. My pups are the best personal trainers—in exercise and in life: They wake up happy; eat to live rather than live to eat; trust and love; and, best of all, they don't care how they look. They taught me to stop judging myself by my appearance."